Dry-oil-gas burner



(No Model.)

C. H. WEST.

i DRY OIL GAS BURNER. N0. 588,520. Patented ug..l 17, l89'7.

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CHARLES H. WEST, OE KEARNEY, NEBRASKA.

DRY- olL-GAS BURNER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent'No. 588,520, dated August 17, 1897.

I Application led March 6, 1897. Serial No. 626,271. (No model.) i

To all whom. it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. WEST, of Kearney, in the county of Buffalo and State of Nebraska, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Dry-Oil- Gas Burners, of which the following is a'speciiication.

The object of my inventionisrto provide a dry-oil-gas burner or a burner for burning oil-gases in a perfectly dry state, in contradistinetion to burning the oil in the form of a mist or spray; and to this end it consists in the special construction and arrangement of the various parts of the burner, which I will now proceed to more fully describe with reference to the drawings, in which-- Figure l is aside elevation of the burner,

partly in section; and Fig. 2, a vertical cross-A sition upon the pipe is fixed.

section taken through line 2.2 of'Fig. l.

In the drawings, A AfA2 are the main parts of the burner-tube. The part A stands vertically and has a cap a at its lower end which connects with an inlet-tube F. The vertical part A bends at right angles into the longer horizontal part A', and this in turn bends downwardly at its other end into another vertical l section A2, the two bends at the end of pipe A' being simple bends in the pipe without any elbow-couplings, so thatthere can be no leaky joints, and no lodging-places for deposits are left in this part of the pipe.A At the,y

lower end of the vertical section A2 there is a coupling a', with which connects a horizontal pipe A3, filled with metal wires or rods a3 to increase the heat-conducting power, and on the end of this pipe is a closing-'cap d2. In the top surface of this pipe A3 there are two outlet-holes or jet-orifices b b fortheissuance of the gasied oil,and immediately above them and hung upon the horizontal pipe A there are two' peculiarly shaped deiiectors B B. These are of a generally triangular cross-section, with the top part flattened and parallel with the bottom, which latter is larger than the top and Yjoinedto itby two inwardly-inclined sides. The top of each delector is provided with a set-screw h', by which their po- These deflectors have their ends open to the air and their broad sides to the bottom, and they serve to'V the pipe A' to convert the oil into gas. These defiectors B may by means of their set-screws b be moved along the tube A to dilerent positions to suit the requirements of the case.

In the middle of the pipe A there is upon the upper side a gas-dome C, which is designed to superheat the gas and renderk it dry and give more space Afor gas. This Ydome is in open communication with the pipe A through a thimble c. l

D is a metal base having at its ends uprights D' D2, which support the upper horizontal section A/ of the pipe. This base has upturned retaining-flanges on its sides and has in its bottom longitudinal corrugations vadapted to receive parallel layers of absorbyent wicking made of asbestos..

At `the bottom of the couplings a and a there-are turn-buttons E E, which are adapted to engage with recesses c e in the ends of the metal base D and thus lock the base and the burner-pipes firmly together and yet permit them to be separated at will when desired.

VYith the inlet-pipe F for the oil there connects a feed-pipe H, leading from the oil-reservoir I, and at the junction of pipes H and F there is a valve G, by which the oil may be. cut off or regulated at will.

The operation of my burner is as follows:

VThe reservoir I being placed above the level then closed and the saturated asbestos is ignited, the flames from which heat the overhanging tube A and dry-gas dome C, so as to convert the oil into gas, which then commences to discharge forcibly through the IOO 2. A dry-oil-gas burner consisting of the pipes A A A2 bent as described and having a subjacent communica-ting pipe-section A3 with outlet-holes; a ianged or dish-shaped base D having end standards D D2 supporting the top pipe-section A, and also lockingnotches e e, and turn-buttons E E arranged on the lower ends of the pipe-Sections A and A2 to lock in notches e, substantially as and for the purpose described.

CHARLES Il. WEST.

lit-nesses:

TILFORD M. MEssIcK, JOHN HOGE. 

